The explosve that never was
The difficulty that surrounded a blast in Lahore on Thursday Feb 23 is commencement to clear, and even with a comparatively brief hindsight of 24 hours there is most to learn. Although a final news of a debate analysts is not nonetheless in a open domain, a occurrence does not have a hallmarks of terrorism. No snippet of explosives during a scene, no shrapnel injuries and no round orientation found as would substantially be a box with a militant bomb, no explain of shortcoming by any organisation and even some-more tellingly watcher justification per a participation of gas cylinders in a groundwork of a building. Added to this there are reports from during slightest one chairman that a lighting of a cigarette might good have been what triggered a blast in an area that already smelled strongly of gas.
The stress that immediately followed a occurrence was stoked in no tiny partial by a electronic media, and a Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) is wholly right to censure channels that promote unverified reports, in sold those that secretly reported a second blast. The military gave opposing statements that combined to a difficulty and there was an altogether miss of coordination between agencies as good as bad coordination of authority and control both in initial response and in a evident aftermath.
The using of a Lahore Literary Festival hangs in a balance, as does a final of a Pakistan Super League cricket match. Given what is commencement to emerge now attendees during possibly eventuality are no some-more expected to be during risk from removing their snacks from up-market fast-food and café outlets than they are from a predations of a terrorists. This is not to in any approach underplay a risks from terrorism that sojourn estimable and ever present, though we trust both these critical events should go ahead. Security measures were anyway going to be extended to cover them, and these need no composition post to a explosion. Life has to go on alongside a quarrel opposite terrorism, anything reduction and a bombers connect their reason on a inhabitant narrative.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 25th, 2017.
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